The state chronicle. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1883-1893, 1887-05-26
TRIBUTES TO WOMAN.
Gems from the Poets. Preachers and
Sages of Many Lands.


Woman is the masterpiece. -Confucius.
Woman is the crown of creation.-
Herder.
Women teach US repose, ciyility and
dignit w oltaire.
All that I am my mother made me
John Quincy Adams.
Shakespeare has no heroes-he has only
heroines. Ruskin.
Woman is the most perfect when the
most neutrality-suspicious.
In wishing to extend her empire, woman
destroys it it.-Cabauts.
Nature meant to make woman its mas
terpiece. .-Lessing.
There is woman at the beginning OF
al great things.-Lamartine.
If woman lost US Eden, such as she
alone restore it.-W hitter.
| wish Adam had died with all his ribs
in his Boucicault.
To gentleman, every woman is a lady
in right of her sex.-Bulwer.
What is woman? Only one of nature
agreeable blunders.-Cowley.
A handsome woman is a jewel; good
woman is a treasure. .-Sandl.
A fashionable woman is always in love
with herself. .-Rochefoucauld.
Woman is last at the cross and earliest
at the graye-E. S. Barrett.
No man can either live piously or die
righteous without Wlfe.-Richter.
All women are good-good for nothing,
or good for something. Ceryantes.
There was never fair woman but she
mouths in a ass.-Shakespeare.
The sweetest thing in life is the un-
clouded welcome of a wife.-N. P. Willis.
All the reasonings of men are not worth
one sentiment of women.-Yoltaire.
Handsome women without religion are
like flowers without perfume e.-Heine.
world without women, would be like
unto green house without flowers. Anon.
Women are new race, recreated since
the world received Christianity Beecher.
But one thing on earth is better than
the wife-that is the mOther.-LeOpotd
Schefer.
A passionate womans love is always
overshadowed by her fear.-George Eliot.
RetWeen a woman's yes" and ''nO"
would not venture to stick a pin Ger
vantes.
Earth has nothing more tender than a
woman's heart when it is the abode OF
pity.-Luther.
For where is any author in the world
teaches such beauty as a womans eyesl-
Shakespeare.
Woman is the Sunday of man; not his
repose only. but his joy, the salt of his
Michele'
Woman is born for love, and it is impos
sible to turn her from seeking lt.-Mar
garet Fuller Ossoll.
A woman may be ugly, i'll shaped, wick
ed. ignorant, silly and stupid, but hardly
ever ridiculous. Louis Desnoyers.
If the whole world were put into one
scale and my mother into the other, the
world would kick the beam.-Lord Lands
dam
There are only two beautiful things il
The world women and roses; and only
| two sweet things-women and melons -
Malherbe.
O. women! in ordinary cases so mere ;
mortal. how in the great and rare events
! Of life dost thou swell into the angel
Bulwer Lytton.
Women have more strength in thei
looks than we have in our laws; and NOR,
power by their tears than we have by ou1
| arguments.-Saville.
A beautiful woman is practical poet
| tanning her savage mate, planting tender
ness. hope and eloquence in all whom she
approaches
| Misfortune sprnkles ashes on the hear
of the man, but falls like dew on the heat
of the woman and brings forth germs O.
strength of which size herself had no con
scious possession. Anna Cora Mowatt.